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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
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I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
Ethics, part 2 -
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
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